The new talking head on your TV? Phillip Fulmer

APFormer Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer (with wife Vicki) was honored at the Vols' spring game in April. He will be a studio analyst for CBS this season.

This time last year, former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer was coming off an SEC East championship and an appearance in the SEC Championship Game.

Now he's a studio analyst for CBS and you'll be seeing a lot of him this fall.

The network announced this morning that Fulmer will be in studio each Saturday on CBS' new SEC Tailgate pre-game show (which is a sort of ESPN GameDay knock-off) and on the SEC Post-Game Show following CBS' 2:30 p.m. SEC game of the week.

All these SEC-oriented shows, of course, are part of the combined $3 billion TV rights packages signed a year ago by CBS and ESPN to go all SEC, all the time.

The SEC Tailgate show, hosted by Dave Baker (one of the Daves from the old Jefferson-Pilot 11:30 a.m. games), will typically air at 1 p.m.

From the CBS press release: SEC TAILGATE captures all the excitement, traditions and festivities from the various campuses and stadiums across the SEC, as well as previews the match-ups, providing highlights and news from games in-progress. SEC veteran announcer, Dave Baker, joins CBS College Sports Network to host the coverage from the site of the games. Baker will be joined each week by a local SEC legend, including players, celebrity alumni and radio and television personalities, bringing fans a fast paced and authoritative look at football and life in the SEC.

Fulmer will be joined in studio in New York by anchor Sam Ryan and analyst Brian Jones.

Fulmer got his start at CBS by serving as a commentator on national signing day last February on CBS College Sports Network. Apparently both sides were satisfied enough to go forward with this venture.

(BTW, did anyone happen to see Fulmer last February? I just wondered how he did.)

CBS will still air College Football Today at 2 p.m. leading up to the SEC game on CBS.

Then following the CBS game at 6 p.m., the threesome will wrap up the day of SEC football.